Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off of
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You have your host, James Biden. Mike, I'm joined by a head of production or co-host, Seth
Habhacker. Good morning, everyone. And the best listeners and radio with us. Thanks
for joining us, everybody. Let's kick things off way we like to it. We'll take it right
now. Yeah. Maybe you'll get some spots of it, but probably not, right? We've got some
showers and dorms lifting in from the south and the west. Those chances really become
more prominent as we go through this afternoon and into the evening. The good news is we're
not looking at any strong, severe ones. So this is just going to bring some moderate rainfall
with it. Of course, dampening the evening, maglinger tomorrow, too, into the morning. Then
we get a little break, more start to spark up in the afternoon. And let's continue through
to Friday night as well. So it's going to drop our temperatures. Today's highs will be
in the mid-70s tomorrow. We'll hit about 70 and then we'll go back to the mid-70s as we
go into the weekend. But it stays unsettled. Still chances for showers and storms all weekend
long. Now, there won't be drenching us. It's not going to soak out our entire weekend,
but the chances are still there. So enjoy the comfortable temperatures because the heat
and humidity do move in early next week.
Right. Summertime. Summertime. Something to keep in mind. Brittany, do you, we're going to
just a little bit later, Seth and I are going over the, they ranked the fast food best
fries, ranking of the fast food fries. Do you have a favorite? Do you have one that stands
out to you? Oh, that one is tough. That food fries. I asked the tough questions, Brittany.
I am a hardcore journalist. Okay. I'm going then with Arby's curly fries. Oh, good choice.
Oh, you just made my dad a little unexpected. Yeah, nice dad's jam. He loves those. That's
a good one. Good choice. We will hang out tomorrow. We'll get people ready for the weekend.
We appreciate you, Brittany. Have a great day. You too. Thanks.
Best in a business right there. Brittany Milo joining us every morning. We're pretty sure
to appreciate her. And yes, Seth and I will get into that a little bit later, speaking
in good food. We'll be talking about alcafe birthday and anniversary club as well. Fantastic.
Got that coming up. And how many of us can navigate without GPS? Oh, no. That's going
to be a generational thing. I feel like it is a sheepish. I'm going to be sheepish on
that one. It's a Thursday. So you know, we're going to kick off the 10 o'clock hour with
Denise and our friends from the South O'Connor. You made society looking forward to finding
out who our newest pet of the week is and the newest animal I want to take home. We will
figure that out together. We will. We also want a big meal town coffee. Big time shout
out to mill town coffee shop. Head on over there and check them out everybody. And otherwise
I will have some other entertainment news for you. Had a legend pass away. I want to talk
with Seth about Brian Wilson a little bit. Got some information also about Father's Day
prep we're doing. The best movies to watch with your dad. Got that one. Okay. And then
a little bit later we'll talk about our newsletter premiering today, everybody. And are these
the best dads in movie history? Seth and I will debate. We want audience participation.
Interesting the criteria on that. Oh yeah. That's going to be interesting. We got all that
coming up for you. We're going to talk a little more, you know, Father's Day get you
ready for that this weekend and bluegrass at the lake. We've got that to talk about as
well. So much going on. Yeah. Tomorrow Terry Johns will be sitting with us from the United
Way. And I'll talk a little bit more with her about this then. But I did want to just
kick off the show. A big thank you to the United Way and to all the people that showed
up yesterday for the great book giveaway. Yeah. Got to get the chance to be a part of
that. I think fourth year in a row. I've gotten to do that over at our local zoo here in
town. That's very cool. Going over there. And I just want to send a shout out to the people
of course from the United Way there working so hard. They do a great job. I went recruiting
actually went and brought some more kids over. It was really good. Nice work. That is
nice work. And of course the families and the kids were great. They always are. But I want
to send a special shout out to Kitty or Miss Kitty who's been doing this for a long time.
And a wonderfully sweet human being. And just wonderful to see her again. I was going to
see her shout out to her. Appreciate her taking the time to do this. And she let me sneak
ahead of her. So because I had an appointment to get to it. I get you to get ahead of her.
And that's really nice. I appreciate Miss Kitty. And appreciate everybody that donated
books. And it is a part of this great event. You got more opportunities coming up. Everybody.
Today they're going to be the ed Heuer Elementary and Port Edwards at 1030. And then
on Friday, Adams County Library and Adams at 1030 on Friday as well. They'll be at the
Lester Public Library of Rome at 130. I love that library. Yes. Monday be back over at the YMCA
here in Town and Rapids at 1030. Very cool. That's a new place. Yeah. Man, everything wraps up
next Tuesday on the 17th at the Lester Public Library of Vesper at 1230. And one of the
cool things that they do with this event is rain or shine. They will have this event. They've
got backups in mind. Always find out more and about other great things going out with our
United Way, UWSWAC.org. Seth, I'm speaking of Father's Day and stuff. Okay. I want to ask you
in the audience something here. I got a two-parter. So a New York man may have earned a Guinness
World Record by playing golf for 36 consecutive hours. Kaleegi LZ, a long island man who is
originally from Nigeria, hit the links at Huntington Crest Club at 6pm Sunday with the intention
of playing the game for 24 hours. The minimum goal set by Guinness World Records is to
originate the title for the longest marathon playing golf. Okay. All right. As he gives plans,
abruptly changed halfway through his attempt when he was told a Norwegian man had just competed,
just completed an attempt that went for 32 hours. What are the odds? What are the odds?
The happy thing. The same time. Yeah. So he extended his own attempt and ended up finishing
after 36 hours of golf on Tuesday. Wow. Evidence from his attempt and now must be reviewed by
Guinness World Records, but it looks like this is a go. Wow. The one that poured our
Norwegian guy in the record for like what a day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As he said, his goal is to expand
the reach of golf, especially to young people in Nigeria where he brought the land, he bought the
bought the land and plans to build a course there. So he's bought some land over there.
I built a golf course in Nigeria. Wow. And a lot of this is to bring attention to that.
Right. Right. People assume that golf is for the wealthy and I'm trying to change that.
The goal is to let people know that golf is a game for everybody, whether your economic
background or somebody with special needs, you can play the game of golf. Right. Right.
And that's really cool meaning behind that. That's that's amazing. And how how did Randy Paul
change his name so quickly in order to do notes? You start the same thing I did like this is Randy.
I'm okay with Randy, right? Yeah. That's Randy Paul.
Now two quick, two quick questions here. One. Actually, just a quick side note, I really do
love what he was saying there about golf and the wealthy and all that stuff. Right.
That is something that a lot of people, especially being blunt about ethnic people,
thought for a long time. Look at the masters in the history of the country. Look at the PGA right now.
Yeah. Yeah. It's it's pretty, pretty white. I'm not saying anything that you know far fetch
your crazy or anything like that. But obviously that has changed and long before Tiger Woods,
VJC and some other golfers. It's an international game for sure. And certainly a lot of the
Spanish influence there has changed a lot of that. But I think of hockey a lot with this,
where hockey for a long time was a richer sport. In order to play the sport, you didn't have to be
rich necessarily, but you had to afford a lot of equipment, a lot of equipment to be able to play
hockey. So guys like my dad who just loved hockey, it took it. He started late at it because they
just couldn't afford the equipment. I love the intent of this and everything. And at the same time,
I could not imagine now I am not a golfer. I couldn't imagine doing something like this man.
I couldn't I could 36 hours of the sport. 36 hours of anything. There's my question. Is there a
sport you could play for 36 hours? Ask everybody out there. Is there a sport you think you could beat
the Guinness record of pickle ball? You know, a tic tac toe. I don't know. Is there anything you
can I can't I'm not sure if there's anything I can think. Okay, there's one thing I can think.
I don't know. I don't know. There's a sport. I can 36 hours. No, I don't. Anything for 36 hours
straight. You could I I defy someone to watch television for 36 hours straight. Right.
Seriously, that's amazing. And it also says I think it gave me the mischievous and wonderful idea
of the Guinness record that I would like to break. Oh, are we finally getting there? We're getting
close. What is the Guinness record? I'm not going to look it up all around the air here. Okay,
right. But what is the Guinness record for most amount of time live on the air? Oh, I know there
is one. I know there. In fact, I think it was it last year someone had set a new record for that.
I think I remember talking I was talking about it. When it happened and when we talked about it,
yeah, I don't remember thinking this, but I read this a story this morning. And I late last night,
I mean, and I well, it was technically morning. And it got me thinking about that. And to that
point, I didn't mean to do that, but piggybacking from that, I'm nocturnal. I'm awake anyway.
Right. Why not break a Guinness record? And you know, bring some attention or some awareness.
Exactly. Yeah. We've got a lot of great nonprofits. We've got a lot of great causes in this area
that we all believe in. I think it's a winning combination. I think we might be able to do
something like that and do a little research here on during the break when we get there. Yeah.
Here's the thing. We got a station manager and an owner of the company that are both just as
crazy as we are. Just as wonderfully weird and crazy as we are. And I see that with all the
love and respect I pass right. I love my job. But yeah, yeah, I don't think that they'd be
against this necessarily, huh? No, I'm really starting to chew on this one, man. And I will admit
to everybody, I am, I need sleep. Yeah, that's right. Definitely part of where this idea is coming from.
But it's something I've kind of into now. And now that I got my head on, like, I'm one of those
people, like a lot of people out there where when you get your mindset on something and there's no
second place. There's no third. You've got to achieve this. I'm getting there with this now.
Yep. Okay. Where I just want to do that. All right. And we understand. Oh, do you have something?
No, not yet. Okay. I'll have something later though. We understand that there's a lot of people
out there that are like a lot like that when it comes to winning. Okay. And so we're going to have
more on the civic media scotty summer text to win contest word. We'll tell you when to be listening
for that and everything. So we know you guys, you guys feel about those things and the winning
part of this. Yeah. Now then there's this story, Seth. And I don't know if this is winning,
if this is breaking a record or if this is just proving something. And I will admit to the audience,
part of what caught my eye on this story is it involves a Swiss man and I co-hosting this show
with somebody of Swiss origin. A Swiss man put his cold endurance to the test and broke a Guinness
world record by spending more than two hours buried in the snow while wearing only his swimming
trunks. Ellis Mayer, a competitive powerlifter, said he decided to take on the title for the longest
time spent in direct full body contact with snow after discovering no one had yet cracked the
two-hour mark. Okay. So this guy saw that. It was like, Ha! Two hours. The previous record set by
a Polish man of our he Romanowski in 2022 stood at one hour 45 minutes and two seconds. Okay.
Mayer wearing only the swimsuit was buried under a mound of snow for two hours and seven seconds.
There you go. He said the cold bothered him less than the weight of the snow pressing down on him.
Interesting. That would be a lot. Yeah. Okay. It was the snow on his shoulders. He said that
was the hardest part. The athlete said he wanted to demonstrate that the body is capable of
incredible things. It is. And human beings are capable coming up with insane things. I mean,
dude, you have the Swiss people bad name by sitting in the snow. What are you doing, man?
I gave an example just now of a record that I think would be fun and I would like to try to
break and all that. And now I'm giving you an example of a record that I will never come anywhere.
No, you're nowhere near. No, nowhere. I mean, there's just no. There's so many records you could
break. Why would you tell? I guess the lure of the record, I guess. I mentioned causes and I've
talked about my own many times and I've gotten on a soapbox a billion times on these airwaves and
I appreciate everybody putting up with me. And it's something that my mother had in me and
stealing me and her, my brother and sister and stuff. And there's there's certain things that I
I would fight for and there's certain things that I believe I would die for when it comes to it.
I ain't doing this though. I ain't doing that. If you died doing that, you'd be very upset.
I would be very upset with myself. I would be like, if there is a nonprofit, there is a
cause out there. I will fight for you. I will back you. I will not do this though.
Nope, you are on your own. You are on your own. I think you're going to have to come with
something to do. And that's not happening. I can't do it. I don't think I'd let
I don't know. I'm trying to think how long I would last and I'm thinking, oh my god, maybe 10,
maybe 10 minutes, maybe 20 minutes, maybe I don't know. I'm just not built for that. I know.
I'm as Midwest as it gets and I just was like, well, I almost feel like you two like doing
something like like, don't you like your body? You just are you just mad at your body?
So yeah, it was worth losing those four fingers for doing this, you know.
Well, I'm breaking that record. I'm sorry if it sounds bad, but for a guy to do it,
that seems extra bad. That seems extra worth. We will take a break. Come back with
the El Caffe birthday anniversary club boarding show WFHR.
You heard the boys. It's time to get to celebrate with our great friends over at El Caffe.
We encourage you to treat yourself. Get on over to 221 Market Avenue and beautiful
ported. Treat yourself again and over there. Check out some of those great specials they have.
The homemade pies. Seth, have you tried a number of these yet?
I have not. The reason is, and I will give this reason, I should get the pie first,
because every time I go there, I eat the food and then I'm full. And I don't want to have
even, and I'm not going to overdo it with a pie even as much as I love pie. Not going to,
you know, I don't want to feel overstuffed or anything like that. So I need to do it the other way
around. See, I got to get the pie first and then do the meal and then that'll be good.
It's a cool thing to bring up, actually, because they do a really nice job of making sure that
you get great portions. Yes. I don't know about anybody else. It's not something that, you know,
I think about that often, but it is nice when you see it. It is. You're not leaving hungry.
You know that much. No. You're going to enjoy yourself. You're going to be treated by some great
people over there. Encourage you to head on over to El Caffe today. Check out some of these amazing
menu items that they have and that wonderful food cast crew that they have over there.
I am a little distracted. I was looking at the... You was looking at the pie. Yeah,
brownie delight. Brownie delight sounds pretty good. Oh, interesting. Okay. We should probably,
you know, as friends, you know, we all are El Caffe and us and everything. We should probably
warn them. We are... Melissa and I were talking after the show yesterday. We really want to set up
another team meeting and we're going to do it over there. Excellent. So somebody should warn them.
Somebody, a bunch of radio people are going to be sure to come in. We appreciate you guys
over at El Caffe. Have a good morning over there. And keep getting us those birthdays and
anniversaries, everybody. Yes, indeed. Love celebrating with you. You can email us info at WFHR.com.
You can direct messages on our Facebook pages. And of course, you can call on up right now.
715-424-2600. Shout out your birthday or anniversary on the airwaves. We'd love to hear from you.
We need a one or a two from you Seth. Let's do one today. Show the fastball. Yeah, I like it. First
up wishing a happy birthday to John Gates. Happy birthday, John. Enjoy the day, sir. I hope it's
a good one for you. Indeed. And our qualifier, and she can qualify now, Marilyn Siegler. Oh,
congratulations, Marilyn. Name might sound familiar to our longtime listeners out there. That is our
Jeff Siegler's wife. Yeah, that's right. Long time employee at WFHR. Yeah, Jeff is great.
Jeff is great. Jeff's wonderful to work with. It was wonderful to work with and all those things.
And all that pales a comparison to Marilyn. She is awesome. She is wonderful. And I wish
her a great day. Enjoy your day. And that's something that is a line Jeff would want me to say.
I feel confident. Very good. Happy birthday to you, Marilyn. Enjoy your day. You're a qualifier.
Let's take a look at who you share your birthday with. Abby Lee is 38. Australian model has
done a bit of acting. She was in the dark tower. Was the DAG and Mad Max Ferry Road. Didn't
a nice job in that. Wow, cool. Let's see here. Dave Franco is 40. Wow, I don't know why that made me
feel older. Younger. And just my opinion, way more talented than his older brother, James Franco.
He was in 21 Jump Street a little bit. And he's been done it that now you can see me movies.
He's had a pretty steady career and just finds work and is willing to do whatever it takes
for a role. Like as far as comedically and all these things, doesn't have that hang up like his
brother. I feel like I've always trying to look cool and always worrying about that. It feels like
I don't know James Franco, but it sure came across as an actor that way. Where Dave just, I don't
know him. I don't know what he how he is. I've seen him in interviews. He always seems like he's
happy to be there. Whatever he's doing. And very just like a big just a big giver of
also doesn't have all the baggage that his brother does coming into to you. That part definitely
helps. Chris Young is 40. Country singer. Yes, he oh nice. Yes. Shares his birthday with another
great singer and songwriter and blues master Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 48. Wow, 48. He's your age,
man. Wow. Wouldn't have expected that. Don't look at he looks like younger than I do and the
times are not better than him. Great blues player. Wonderful guitar player. I'm a big fan of Kenny
Wayne Shepherd. Jason Mews is 51. One half of one of the greatest pairings in comedic history.
Jade Silent Bob. I will die on that. Jason Mews story is one of my favorites in entertainment.
Just a wild weird story. He's kind of a wild weird guy actually. He's a little eccentric.
This to be sure to be sure. As the relationship with him and Kevin Smith and the friendship
between those two is beautiful. It's awesome. And to see the way Kevin Smith has backed him and
helped him. It's the true definition of friendship. Yep. You know, when they talk about celebrity
friends and stuff like that, these two were friends long before they became celebrities and all
that. Francis O'Connor is 58. Great actor. Great actor. One of my favorites. Scott Thompson is 66.
Kids in the Hall star. Yes, indeed. Also played Hank's assistant on Larry Sandershow.
Oh, that's right. I forgot to buy that. It's here. Otherwise, I'd have forgotten about it.
A big fan of Scott Thompson and a game changer. Yes. Trailblazer, game changer.
The whole kids in the whole sketch show really was. The whole group here.
The whole front of a lot of that. And as Seth and I were just
hardly enough talking about this morning. If it was for SNL and second city and stuff,
kids in the hall, that might be my one. I love that show. Meredith Brooks is 67. I can't
technically say the title of her big hits. Yes. Yes. It was her big hit female dog.
Yeah. I feel like I'm saying that context you could probably say.
But yes, we'll be cool with it. But yes, yes, that was again. And the controversy
when it was a big hit. Yes. Good singer, songwriter. Very good, though. Yes. I believe she wrote that.
Yes, she did. The great Bun E. Carlos is 75. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Cheap,
tricks, glasses wearing, wonderful, just drummer sitting in the back. I mentioned before,
I think it was the Marshfield State Fair, the Cheap Trick Hope did or whatever. And back in the
classic rock days, Panama, that's his favorite band in the universe. Wow. And he gives me the chance
to open, you know, introduce them and everything. And he threw it at me at the last second, too.
And I was just tongue tied. And then I'm walking up those steps. And the first thing I see
is this band that I've heard my whole life, my father loves Cheap Trick and everything. And I
see those guys. And I was a little nervous. But then I look at Bun and he's just sitting there,
man, and just calm, cool, collected, ready to go. We got a cigarette in his mouth. And I was like,
all right, yeah, I felt good. Did he always have a cigarette? Pretty much.
Well, he was playing. I seem to remember seeing a lot of pictures of that video. Yeah.
Nice guy, very nice man and a very good drug. You know, I got to say, if you watch some of their
videos from the early 80s and stuff, they were all car characters, all four guys. They had
personality. And I love that about. And I will always thank Panama for giving me that opportunity.
That's awesome. I really do appreciate it. He was also a part of Tinted Windows, the most random
super group maybe ever. His bandmates were Taylor Hansen from Smash and Pumpkins, our Smash
and Pumpkins guitarist James Aha. And fountain of Wayne basses Adam Schleischler. Oh,
Slesinger. Yeah. Slesinger Slesinger. Wow. That is a very, very interesting man.
Marv Albert is 84. Oh, the great Marv Albert. Wow. Wow. That voice. You know, it's funny that we,
you know, for, I don't know, James, if you're with me on this one or not, I was associated with
basketball, the NBA on NBC, right? He was their number one guy for basketball. You forget,
though, man, he did football. He did everything. He did baseball. I mean, early in his career, man,
like a lot of guys back then, he did everything. So people no longer with us, former first
president, George Bush senior, born in the state in 1924. Wow. Also Jim neighbors,
born in the state in 1930. Go Murr pile. Also an operatically trained singer. He had a fantastic
voice. That's really something. Yes. I don't know. I think I only knew that because you might have
brought it up the last time we did this. Yeah. But either way, that's just that that should be
no more. That should be like everybody should have to mention that with their talk about Jim
neighbors. Yes. And Frank was born in this day in 1929. Jewish teenager who hit from the Nazis in
a secret apartment behind her father's business in Germany, occupied our Amsterdam. After two
years, the Franks were discovered and sent to a concentration camp in northern Germany. And Frank
died sometime in March of 1945 from Typhus, only a few weeks before British soldiers liberated
the concentration camp where she was a prisoner. As a child, this story wasn't just important to me
in my family, obviously being Jews, but I would hope even beyond that. Just a beautiful, wonderful
and tragic story. It's a human story is what it is for for sure. I maintain that Anne Frank's
story is maybe the most human story that there is. And I think if you strip away certain feelings
or emotions, I think you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. And I think one of the more
beautiful lives lived was in Franks. In spite of everything, I still believe that people are
good at heart. Her quote was a game changer for me. And just her life was just a beautiful soul.
As a brief as it was. Everybody celebrate in the birthday anniversary out there. We wish you
a great one. Enjoy your day, everybody. We'll take a quick time out into our news, sports,
an entertainment break. We'll come back and we're talking fast food fries. Who's got the best?
We want to hear from you. It's coming up on the morning show at WFHR.
Welcome back, everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio.
Seth and James hanging out with you. We hope you have a good one out there.
Let's talk fries, everybody. Yum. A restaurant supply company analyzed more than 40,000
Yelp reviews. And that mentioned fries across 21 major fast food chains. Okay. And before we get
into it, let's just say they might have maybe mucked this up. Who knows? But it is interesting.
It is an interesting list in part in part because of what's missing really. Okay.
So just looking at this list. And again, we want to hear from everybody out there.
Your favorite local fries, your favorite fries. What have you all the above?
In and out burger came in at number one. Wow. Man, I wish we had some of those here.
Yeah, they're really good. That's what I've heard. Nothing but good stuff about them.
Same thing with Shake Shack. Also her good things. I haven't had Shake Shack plenty of times.
Freddy's frozen custard in steak burgers at number three. What?
Bojangles at four. Chick-fil-A at five. Raising canes at six.
Something called Zach Bees. Zach Bees is a chicken place. Yeah, okay.
Yeah, I've seen a few of those around. Yeah. Okay. Arby's. That's pretty.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Hardies at number nine.
And at number 10 checkers. Okay. Now, there are great fries on this list.
I got to say checkers fries are really amazing. Really are they're underrated.
I'm really good. I am disappointed in checkers fries. Oh, yeah, I have to say I'm not that keen on them.
I like it. I like them. Now, if you're noticing any places missing from that list,
you're not alone. Here are the five worst fries. KFC, McDonald's, Burger King,
Church's Chicken, and Popeyes. Okay. And so the people online are just freaking out because
McDonald's is oftentimes, and we've done this, this thing a couple of times over the years.
And McDonald's is if not number one, they're usually number two. Like it's no lower.
Seriously. Yeah, they're considered some of the best, right? So they're trying to figure out how
this is possible. Maybe McDonald's has set the bar so high for itself that people are more likely
to complain on Yelp. Because this is coming from Yelp reviews. That's true. That's very true.
And can we all like, here's something that I think, I love gentleman's agreements.
I love these things that we don't need the government to tell us to do something or whatever.
We just, we just as a society are like, yeah, we're going to do this.
We're going to shame anybody who does it. You know, holding the door open for somebody.
You know, holding the elevator door, things like this and everything. I feel like that's
something we could all do. Can we all agree that I have no problem with leaving somebody
leaving a negative review. But then you have to go somewhere else and leave a positive review.
Okay. Just do both. That's bouncing out a little bit. It's so darn easy to complain.
It's so darn, and we're in a time and age where people have a megaphone, whatever we're talking
about, whether it's Yelp or any other kind of social media. If you want a bark, you can get
heard now, man. Yeah. It's easier than it's ever been in history of human beings. And you don't
even have to take responsibility for it. You can just say whatever, right? No one knows who you are.
Got a billion keyboard, keyboard cowards out there that are so quick to do that. And I have
no problem with people, you know, venting or getting out frustrations or any of these things.
Because that is, we're in America, freedom of speech. But I do think that freedom of speech isn't
free. It comes with a responsibility. I think that we should be just as much, you know, inclined
as a society to leave positive reviews as negative ones. People are so quick to do that. I think
we should all agree, hey, you're going to leave a negative one. That's fine. But then somewhere
you had a positive experience, go out of your way to leave a positive review because there aren't a
lot of them. Not a lot of businesses get that, especially local businesses. Anytime you're able
to leave a positive review, and I say this only if you had a good experience, not saying lying,
but if you had a good experience, take five seconds and leave a positive review. Because you have
no problem leaving taking 10, 20, maybe even a half an hour out of your day to write a post about
how it will burn. Yeah, right. Well, the other thing I would want people to do is if something is
bad, something happens at a place, doesn't matter where it is, a restaurant, a store. Did you give
the people a chance to rectify the problem before you went out and started saying how bad they were?
Yeah. And if you didn't, why? That's my question to you. Why didn't you do that? That doesn't
make any sense to me. You give them a chance to make it better, right? That's what you want. You
want it to, you went in there for a certain purpose. Let them do their job if they messed it up.
Fine. Give them another chance and maybe they can make it right for you. I think if there's one
thing that I'm getting more and more frustrated with, and I do admit that I'm getting older and
this is part of it. But I think the one thing that I'm really old man yelling at cloud about,
it's people talking loud and saying nothing. It's just barking for the sake of barking or just
wanting to just complain. That's fine, but you've got to, but where's your solutions?
Where's the other end of that? And I mean, have a leg to stand on with it too or something.
And to be fair too, there are people out there that are doing this, what you're talking about,
you know, just barking, but they're also getting paid to do it. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of
trolls out there that are actually getting paid to do that sort of thing, which makes, I mean,
that adds a whole nother layer of ickyness to me about it. So it's, which is the, yeah.
Well, you know, it's one of those things where we're having to get better and better at seeing
through this stuff as a society. Yeah. And being able to read between just a little critical thinking,
critical, you know, media thing. Let's not believe everything we see. Yeah. Yeah. And it's part of
something, it's part of why we're so adamant about, you know, double checking resources. Yeah,
exactly where they're sources from. You know, I like you don't go on the airwaves and say,
you know what, I want to break the record for most amount of time on the air before you hear
that it's seven days. You're right. Dear God. I always do your research. Even even trying to pitch
this in the studio here and everything, Laura right away, like nobody wants to see you for seven
days in a row. Nobody wants that. And she's absolutely right. And one other thing about this,
though, is the other record we won't get into that right now. Right. There was another record that
might be reachable. That might be a little more reachable. I don't want to see the ground rules.
Just see how they do that. Anyway, we got to look into that one more. But I did want you take a
second to touch on this, Seth, because this is a good one that's going on today. There was
constant department of transportation will be hosting a construction information meeting regarding
a project on Whist 73 and industrial street to Whist 186 in Wood County. The meeting is scheduled
for today at five o'clock over at the Wisconsin Rapid City Hall at 444 Grand Avenue. Project
staff will share construction details, staging, schedule, traffic impacts and other information.
You can find out more about this by going to Whist. D-O-T dot net or dot org. You can find out more
by going to the website at Whist.gov. I'm sorry. Whist.gov. And certainly, you know,
encourage you to attend this event. Yeah, especially if you if you're interested in or you have any
concerns and they can hopefully help you with that. I appreciate that they're doing that.
Absolutely. We will come back and when we get back, only how many of us can navigate without
a GPS. I'm going to get into that one coming up on the morning shift.
Welcome back everybody. Morning show here at WFHR. Locally grown radio. We hope you're having a
fantastic Thursday out there. I'd be Friday. Seth and James hanging out with you. I got some great
local stuff we'll be getting into in a little bit. And of course, we're going to kick off the
10 o'clock hour supporting local like we like to do around here. We're the good friends at the south
of Connie main society in our pet of the week. Yes indeed. Big thank you to Milltown Coffee for
that. We appreciate them sponsoring that segment. I play a little bit of Al Stewart for you, Seth,
to play into this subject to ease into it. It's very triggering for me. It is. No, it's great. It turns out
only half of us can navigate without turn by turn GPS directions. Okay, now don't feel so bad.
There's a new pull out a naviga quote navigation skills and only 16% of people are confident. They're
excellent navigators without turn by turn GPS. 37% of people said that they'd be good. 27%
said they fare and navigating. 10% admit that they'd be poor at it and another 7% said they'd be
terrible without GPS seven. I'm at the part of the 7% that's I'm terrible terrible GPS is most
helpful when you're driving in an area. So you're not familiar with sure, but even though 87% of people
say they know their own community pretty well 14% usually are always leave their GPS on anyway. Oh,
I don't do that. Now that I am a little guilty of oh really. I wouldn't say like I wouldn't say
like a block or two away. But I love finding like shorter routes. I don't know what it is. I got
in the driving late in life. Maybe that's a little bit of it or something like that. But I love
taking back roads and I like taking short routes. Yeah, those are fun. Sometimes GPS will tell you
that and sometimes it'll tell you about traffic things and stuff. But I don't really use it much
outside of that. I do I do tend to use it like with the first time or two I'm going somewhere.
But after that I like to kind of test myself. And I know I got the GPS there if I need it. I can
pull it up on my phone if I need to. Otherwise I kind of like to test myself and make sure that I can
navigate. Okay. I am a I'm not just like throwing this word out there actually have it in my blood.
I'm a gypsy. This is in my blood. This is who I am. I generally like enjoy that stuff. So I also
grew up my job in the car when we travel with my papa was reading the map. Sure. And I I'm very
well map. Map literate. How about that? Yeah. Map literate is good. I like that. So I and I
I'm a big believer in everybody should be able to read a map. Oh 100% oh man. And and maybe this
is because of the arrow we grew up the transition area from maps like paper maps to GPS systems.
But if you can I mean I would always feel better before GPS if I could study a map very
closely to where I was going to be and I would feel a lot better about it. Because it that's
exactly why I use GPS if it's an unfamiliar place because it's like yeah I don't know this and
and I get I get quite anxious actually when I'm going into a place where I don't know where things
are. I don't like that. So it's that's why for me man without GPS oh I would feel I would not
feel comfortable at all. Yeah I would not feel at all. There's the old joke of the the husband
that doesn't want to ask for directions and the life that wants him to and all that right.
We've lost that joke thanks to GPS. Yep. I hope you're happy technology. Yes they're going to be
people who who don't even know like what? Ask for directions. You don't pull it up on your phone
you know yeah. So we're both on the same page and from the same era we're the map thing and I
it's good right about that. I do think that everybody should learn the map. I don't think though I
don't think that this is something that should be put on teachers. I think this should be put on
parents or guardians or what have you. Well you can make it fun too. I mean studying maps is
interesting to me. I think there's enough on teacher's plates and I think that something like
this is something that every parent should want to do. I want your it's like tying your shoes or
something like that. I feel like I feel to me reading a map should be like that. One of my one of
my grandpa's you could you could just you could put a pin on it. Every time I went over to visit him
you know at the house or later on whatever didn't matter when it was just sitting there chatting at
some point the atlas would come out because he would try to you'd be telling a story and try to
remember of course he was one of those guys that could you know remember the details and get
sidetracked by it. Oh yeah. So you'd have to pull out the map and show me and and look at the names
of the city or whatever like that that was it but guarantee it every time the atlas would come out.
Here are a few other stats from the poll. 72% of people claim that they're very poor at
reading physical or digital maps. 68% would say that their sense of direction is very good.
63% say that they can usually remember a new route after having traveled at once.
Okay. I need at least twice. I'll be honest. I know I would give that to Beth. She is fantastic.
When she goes around once she knows it. I don't know why but that doesn't surprise me. Not sure
what it is but I mean she's got it down in a positive way. Yes. Yes. I'm so glad she
is. It's a surprise because I don't know. You guys are good. That's right. 59% of us say that we
quote enjoy reading maps. They're fun. I enjoy reading maps. I think they're interesting. Yeah.
51% say that they quote don't enjoy giving directions because they're hard. Yeah. Directions
are hard to give or to receive for that matter. Yeah. Weird kind of pressure involved in it.
There is. Yeah. Like most of us by not even somebody like me that got in the driving late and all
that if you miss your turn you understand in your head in your subconscious all that well there's
probably another I can just there's always another way right. Yeah. It's not the end of the world.
Right. It's not as if oh god now we're stuck. This is where we live now. Right. We're here on
highway 82 and we're stuck on the side here because we took the wrong turn or something like we all
know we can get back around. Sure. It's just an inconvenience and everything but the pressure that
you feel on I'll take a left. No, no, I meant right. I meant right. Oh god. Oh god. Oh no.
It's okay. You're panicking even though like you're right. There's I'm sure there's another
road up ahead. You can turn on right. Yeah. But we can oh man do we get it's happy. I think you're
too. It's almost happening right now. I bet. Yeah. Somewhere out there. Somewhere out there like no
no no no no no no I'm in the left. I'm in the next one. Oh no. Well this is it now. This is where
we live. Yes. 45% say that they don't remember routes very well if riding is a passenger in a car.
That makes sense because you're you're more aware unless you're like you said specifically like
navigating for the driver or if you're driving it it would make sense because you're more
looking at the road anyway. Yeah. You know because you're already paying attention. That makes
sense to me. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean certainly as a passenger I would think you can pay more
attention. You know you're doing a little bit a little busy driving. Hopefully that's
right. Hopefully. Picking the song if you're you know getting snacks to the kids. Yeah. Yeah. That's
busy. Don't make me come by. 28% say that they don't have a very good quote mental map of their
environment. That would be me. Yeah. Forget it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think I have a pretty good
one. My problem is I can't draw. So like trying to draw it out that would never be possible.
Right. Nobody would be able to figure it out. I made the joke for years. I can't even draw a
stick figure. I don't think people understand how bad I am at draw. The visual arts is not your
thing. I could draw something in a five year old could draw something and everybody will be shocked.
Shocked. Well that's better James than yours. Well. Yeah. Yeah. That is just not my thing. Not my
thing. When it comes to like directions and giving directions. Have you been in those situations
where you're just happens a lot in the city. I'm just not sure where you're from and out here and
you know in the middle of central Wisconsin and everything. I'll often happens. I don't know if
it's even happening me much. Maybe once or twice here in Wisconsin. Rapids. But you have to happen
all the time in the city. Right. Hey. How do I get to such and such or I'm trying to get here
and they show you the cut out or the you know the printout of something or whatever. I for me
I loved that stuff when I was a kid. I don't know why. I did. There was something about it. I
really liked. I like being able to do that and everything. But I was and this is not going to
shock one person. I give too much information. Overload way. Too much information to the point where
by the time they they were walking away like wait a minute. Did he say a letter or a right? And
by that time I'm gone. Yeah. I'm gone. Yeah. Oh man. I was very good at it. But I like doing it.
But you enjoyed it. You enjoyed doing it. No, I've never had a much once or twice. I think in my
life I can remember giving directions for something like that. I'm sure they were wrong.
Is it harder to give directions in a rural area than in the city? Because I think that it's easier
in the city. Well, I think it is because I think you have more landmarks and and the distances are
longer in that when you're out in the rural in a rural area. Yeah. Because you have to go well,
you have to go a couple of miles down, you know, and then you get to this road and then take a
left and and then go that way on this road for another two miles, you know, kind of thing. So,
yeah. And everybody out there we'd like to hear from you on this one. How often do you use GPS? Do
you use it a lot a little? What do you do with it? You know, one of the fun things about, you know,
so what my family's lived in rap is now for six and a half years. And still I turned down streets
and I'm like, I don't think I've ever been on the street before. Which is always fun, you know,
especially where you live. It's like kind of it's a it's maybe silly, but it's a like a little
adventure. You like it. I'm seeing new things in town that I've never seen before. I love it.
It doesn't happen to me that often here in rapids anymore, but it happens all the time like just
even in point. Yeah, go see this point. Yeah, something like that. I've been up and down all over
point and yet that happens sometimes where it's I think especially if you're if you end up going
places down back roads or something like that and that you're not normally doing. Exactly.
Wanted to, I'd mentioned I wanted to talk about the zoo a little bit. Our Wisconsin's
Rapids Municipal Zoo is open for the season everybody. Just a stone's throw away from where we are
in 1911 Gainer Avenue. Head on over there, check things out. They're open Tuesday through
Sunday 10 to 7. They're closed on Mondays and they have some new animals over there and some new
fun. Want you to check out and it's free. It's all free. It's free. The only thing I ask and not
them I ask is that you thank the workers there and in the animals and everything. And on Thursday,
June 19th, 1030 to 430, forced whales, forced whales. We've got this fantastic man.
Join them for an unforgettable open house style ocean exploration experience step inside an
incredible 65 foot life size inflatable whale and journey into the world of these gentle giant
like they never before. Wow. I got to do this. It's like being swallowed by a whale.
I cannot wait to sing is that? Cannot wait to do this. I only hope there's not an age limit.
I only hope to say your Pinocchio dreams. Yeah. I love whales. I like whales. I can't wait to do that.
I've never never heard of anything like this. No, that's really interesting. Yeah.
You'll also get hands on with amazing bone replicates like a humpback vertebrae and orcasco
a megalodon tooth. Wow. Oh, in a norwaltusk. I wonder what that feels like. A tusk, huh?
I know they're called a tusk, even though it looks like a horn, but it is a tusk.
The megalodon tooth. Yes, if you're old school, we're talking dinosaur.
Man, if you don't know what a megalodon is, you look that up and then just take a breath before
you do. Yes, because they weren't things. Crazy, huge, amazing. Find out more about our zoo,
follow them at social media and head on over there everybody. Take in, you know, once
the last time been to the zoo. It is a great, it's one of those little things about
rapids that is so cool. The fact that we have a zoo, it's a smaller zoo, but it's free and they
bring in some great stuff for everyone to see. Take advantage, everyone. Yeah, we really appreciate
all the work and all the effort in the city and everybody puts into that. Yeah. And of course,
we got bluegrass at the lake kicking off today, everybody. Today, tonight, the first act tonight,
yes. They got a bunch of great raffles and merchandise going on. They're 50, 50 drawing.
They're going to have a touch of truck down there on Saturday. See, John's pie ladies will be
down there as well. And of course, the music, the music kicks off 630 tonight, southbound with a taste
of bluegrass by the Silas Powell band. Very cool. Art Stevenson, who joined us here on the
airwaves a little while ago will be performing on Friday. We're so excited about all these bands
and all this music and for this great event to be kicking off the ninth annual bluegrass at the
lake. Encourage you to go to bluegrassatthelake.com. Find out more information. Lots of good information
there. And how'd you like to go for free? I think that would be amazing if we could have someone go for free.
Not you, Seth. You guys call up 715-424-2600 or just dial us through the Civic Media app.
Hit us up. Let us know one of your favorite things about bluegrassatthelake or something you're
looking forward to about bluegrassatthelake. You've never been there. Yeah. We love you. All
yesterday about that was really cool. Yeah. It's fun. And no matter what, make sure to attend this
once. Yeah. The word about this event. It's a great event for a great good time for a good cause.
I go to bluegrassatthelake.com. We'll be back in more show.
